Brown Family Business Records, Part Two (BFBR02)
John Carter Brown Library
Box 1894Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Administrative Information
| ABOUT THE COLLECTION | |
| Processing information: | This finding aid is the product of several generations' worth of archival arrangement. As the story goes, George Parker Winsihp found the files in the stable block atthe Brown family home and brought them to the JCB Library. In the mid-twentieth century James B. Hedges, business historian and author of The Browns of Providence Plantations, attempted to calendar (or itemize) every piece of paper in the BFBR. It was a valiant effort, but he died before he could accomplish this goal. His work was translated into a card catalog system for the Papers, which is still accessible and browsable via our card catalog room. In the late twentieth century an NEH-funded project was undertaken to fully process the papers according to each iteration of the Brown family business. The NEH project produced a standard file order, and a cross-referenced finding aid for each of the 8 businesses. This finding aid is a 2024 attempt to collate the eight finding aids produced by the NEH project. Consider it a working draft as the JCB further retools its holdings descriptions. |
| ABOUT THE FINDING AID | |
| Author: | Compiled by Catherine Osborne DeCesare and Carole Foster Brown Family Papers Project The John Nicholas Brown Center Brown University Providence, Rhode Island October 1996 |
| Encoding: | This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2024-05-15. |
| Revisions: |
2023
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| Descriptive rules: | Describing Archives: A Content Standard |
